Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1540
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Josh Hutcherson works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Josh Hutcherson appears in 35 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Josh. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Francis Lawrence, David Ayer, Rusty Cundieff and others, Josh Hutcherson helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) as Peeta Mellark · Bridge to Terabithia (2007) as Jess Aarons · The Beekeeper (2024) as Derek Danforth
Career snapshot
Ranked #1540 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
35
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Most frequent director
Francis Lawrence
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Francis Lawrence
Most common genre
Adventure
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
6.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Winged Creatures, Journey to the Center of the Earth — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.4
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Winged Creatures, Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Most productive era
2010s
15 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.83 films | 6.53 films | 6.91 film |
| Action | 6.02 films | 6.66 films | 4.74 films |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | 6.45 films | 6.55 films |
| Comedy | 6.46 films | 6.34 films | 6.51 film |
| Crime | 5.91 film | 6.01 film | 6.32 films |
| Romance | 7.21 film | 6.31 film | 6.51 film |
| Horror | — | 5.82 films | 6.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Robin.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
The current state of the argument, as Peeta Mellark.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
35 of 35 films
as Jess Aarons
Directed by Gábor Csupó
as Gabe
Directed by Mark Levin
as Peeta Mellark
Directed by Francis Lawrence
as Derek Danforth
Directed by David Ayer
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Jess Aarons
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jess Aarons gives Josh Hutcherson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mike
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
Performance score7.9
Five Nights at Freddy's asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mike is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gabe
Little Manhattan (2005)
Performance score7.8
Little Manhattan asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gabe is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Peeta Mellark
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Performance score7.7
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peeta Mellark is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Jess Aarons
Start here. Bridge to Terabithia is the clearest statement of what Josh Hutcherson does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Josh at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Little Manhattan (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Bridge to Terabithia — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Little Manhattan — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Beekeeper (2024)
Keeps the thriller register of Five Nights at Freddy's but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Francis Lawrence
Director
4 films together
Notably The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
James Franco
Director
2 films together
Notably The Disaster Artist
Shari Springer Berman
Director
1 film together
Notably American Splendor
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Polar Express
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably Zathura: A Space Adventure
Mark Levin
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Manhattan
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably RV
Todd Holland
Director
1 film together
Notably Firehouse Dog
Gábor Csupó
Director
1 film together
Notably Bridge to Terabithia
Eric Brevig
Director
1 film together
Notably Journey to the Center of the Earth
Rowan Woods
Director
1 film together
Notably Winged Creatures
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Lisa Cholodenko
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kids Are All Right
Dan Bradley
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Dawn
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games
Brad Peyton
Director
1 film together
Notably Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Joseph Kahn
Director
1 film together
Notably Detention
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Epic
Rusty Cundieff
Director
1 film together
Notably 57 Seconds
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beekeeper
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Francis Lawrence
Director
4 films together · 5.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Hunger Games: Catching FireJames Franco
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Disaster ArtistGábor Csupó
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bridge to TerabithiaDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BeekeeperGary Ross
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunger GamesMark Levin
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little ManhattanShari Springer Berman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American SplendorRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Polar ExpressChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EpicLisa Cholodenko
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kids Are All RightJon Favreau
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zathura: A Space AdventureTodd Holland
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Firehouse DogRusty Cundieff
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
57 SecondsBrad Peyton
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Journey 2: The Mysterious IslandEric Brevig
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Journey to the Center of the EarthPaul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's AssistantRowan Woods
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Winged CreaturesBarry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RVDan Bradley
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red DawnJoseph Kahn
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DetentionSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Peeta Mellark
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bridge to Terabithia
as Jess Aarons
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bridge to Terabithia
as Jess Aarons
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Tragedy Girls
as Toby Mitchell (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bridge to Terabithia
as Jess Aarons
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Josh Hutcherson has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
23 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in adventure, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Polar Express
as Hero Boy (motion capture)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Beekeeper
as Derek Danforth
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Epic
as Nod (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Signal One
as Charlie
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Peeta Mellark
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Peeta Mellark
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Polar Express
as Hero Boy (motion capture)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Polar Express
as Hero Boy (motion capture)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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